Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates Vaccinating the Littles Why Vaccines for Ages 0–5 Were Unanimously Approved So what about the kids? Little kid vaccines (under 5) got approved last week, and all of my doctor friends with wee ones are haunting the telephone lines and internet trying to find appointments for their kids as quickly as possible. As was true with the…

Do You Feel Lucky? Today’s Update: Covid remains active but less horrifying than many times in the past. With the one-two-three punch of summertime, vaccines, treatments, and shorter isolation periods, for some of us it’s becoming more of an inconvenience and less of a life-altering drama. This is not to minimize that…

This Is How Science Works Now This is how science happens now. The Boston Globe has a great article on how the first Massachusetts monkeypox case was identified: “The doctor (Dr. Nesli Basgoz, infectious disease doc at MGH) woke very early the next morning…thinking about the patient. …

And What They Probably Tell You Testing, Testing, One-Two-Three Testing Since so so many people are turning positive let’s talk about testing for another minute. If Covid has taught all us Junior Pseudo Infectious Doctors anything, it’s that no test is perfect and every test has a failing. In the olden days the best…

Version Three Point Uh-Oh! Omicron case numbers from the very contagious BA.2 and BA.3 variants — and soon BA.4 and BA.5 — continue to move upwards, now climbing in over forty states. — -The good news: Vaccines/boosters no longer are perfect at stopping us from getting Covid but they are…

Coping with the Great Unmasking Covid cases continue to crawl upwards in early May but not hellaciously in most places — not system-crushing. Since home testing has increased so much it’s probably worse than it looks, but still, hospitalizations are stable, too. So it’s not super-dooper terrible. …

Building The Plane While We Fly It, Part 706 Our lull in the middle of mild storm clouds continues. In Massachusetts the number of cases has ticked up a bit. The number of people in the hospital is stable and a fraction of what in was in January (like 200…

Will It Cripple Us Again? We are still in the middle of a wonderful Covid lull but there’s probably some storm clouds gathering, mostly in the form of that Omicron variant called BA.2. Numbers of cases, deaths and hospitalizations are going down in the US but skyrocketing in other parts…

Six Steps To Being SafeR I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020. Here’s my latest; thanks for reading. If you want to support this kind of writing and Medium, you can support us here. In the good news bears category, Omicron cases — mostly caused…